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Double agents are a Cold War trope. An American spy has *gasp* secretly been working for the Soviets the whole time. These days, you\\u2019re more likely to run into a double agent in the world of corporate information technology. Sometimes hackers are selling company secrets while helping the very corporations they exploit.

Andrey Shumeyko was one such double agent. The hacker cruised the digital hangouts of people who bought and sold the secrets of Apple. Facing financial pressure and\\u2014to hear them tell it, a sense of guilt\\u2014they reached out to Apple.

Things didn\\u2019t go quite as Shumeyko expected.

This is the story of Apple\\u2019s Double Agent, brought to you by Motherboard\\u2019s Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai.

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